Tag Archives: Richard Dawkins forum

Quick update and a new button!

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

So what goes on in my world? I’m actually quite busy – Becky is down to visit for a few days tonight, and I am very glad as an unexpected bank charge, just as mysterious as the last set, has cleared me out and i am now flat broke. I will get to the bottom of it and as before get it refunded, but it’s deeply frustrating as you can imagine. Continue reading →

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Dawkins.net Meltdown — New Forum for Exiles; rationalskepticism.org

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

A brief post for me, but a very important one. I know (from emails and comments) that a large number of ex-Richarddawkins.net forum members are passing this way in search of information. After a few days of gracious hosting from … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Josh Timonen…

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

So, the anger and outrage about recent events at RichardDawkins.net continues unabated. I think it’s two days no since I jokingly posted a thread at Rationalia.com called “In Praise of Josh Timonen”, the rather feeble joke being that I could not find anything to say.

Well now I have, so I’ll say it. I have never met Josh, and i have no idea who he is., apart from Richard Dawkins dedicated book to him I’m sure he is lovely, kind and well meaning. He has on this occasion shown a VERY sick sense of humour, rickrolling people trying to back up the database of posts. He has acted incredibly poorly in his dismissal of the forummods after repeated assurances they would be consulted on the new forum. Continue reading →

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There’s probably no Forum – Now relax and enjoy your Life: Richard Dawkins on changes at the forum

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

OK, OK, I know I said I would not write on this tedious topic any more. But the despondency of this morning at seeing a lot of hurt unhappy people and musing over ‘rationalist’ websites ability to explode has no turned to mild good humoured amusement. Richard Dawkins managed to cheer me up – not because I agreed with him or anything he says on this topic, but because it was good old bellicose belligerent Dawkins coming out fighting, and because know we know not to blame Josh. PZ Myers has washed his hands of the matter, not wanting to get dragged in, but Richard has posted on his forum (shame nobody else can!)
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=110356 Continue reading →

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The End of an Era: Richard Dawkins forum to close

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Unfortunately I popped over to RD.net to see what was going on, and found that an announcement had been made that the forum is to close. It will remain live for 30 days to allow us to retrieve anything we want to save: given I had written over 10,000 posts (7,000+ remain after an earlier purge) and I guess many million words as I am not known for my brevity, that will prove immensely difficult. Given that the search has not worked for months, in order to protect other parts of the website and keep the bandwidth manageable, well it will be next to impossible. Continue reading →

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Earth Our Home: The Board Game of Life on Earth

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Welcome to Earth: our Home!

For the Richarddawkins.net science writing contest this month I decided to do something a bit different, and so I have designed a board game… if you are brave enough you can print it out and play it, and if you do please please do tell me how it went! Feel free to modify or improve it as you see fit.

You can see the board, counters and some of the cards here on this article, but if you want to print and play the game, and I really hope you will, then you will find it easier to download the printer friendly zip files and print the files in there which are configured for A4 card or paper. Continue reading →

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Richard Dawkins Forum launches monthly Science Writing Competition

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

While I don’t have as much free time as I would like these days, the forum at http://forum.richarddawkins.net/ remains one of my favourite places to hang out on the net, along with the JREF forum and UK Skeptics. My beliefs … Continue reading →

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5,000 visits!

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Just glanced at the hits counter on the blog and it has reached 5,000 visits to the blog. When I hit 2,000 we had a celebration of sorts – so I guess 5,000 needs marking as well! So a little celebratory wittering about my recent activities seems in order! Today was supposed to be busy with work, and a couple of hours out to go do a piece for an American ghost show. Continue reading →

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I get banned from Dawkin’s forum. Netdrama!

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Oh dear! I have for the last few months been pursued by a small but incredibly tedious group of three or four fundie atheists, who in at least two cases I suspect have serious issues, around the Richarddawkins forum. Today I find that I am again banned. Not in itself a big issue – I probably deserved it, and its only for a week — but the issue is that the parties responsible seem to once again remain unwarned and completely free to continue their harassment. Continue reading →

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